Cholesterol

Cholesterol Patient Handouts

The Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association has developed a series of free cholesterol tools, including a cholesterol booklet and sheet for your use.

Cholesterol: What You Need to Know - Fact Sheet

This two-sided fact sheet was designed in response to the new prevention guidelines published in November 2013 as a take-home teaching tool for healthcare providers to use when counseling patients with dyslipidemia. This information was developed using plain-language guidelines for both English and Spanish speakers. The tool is available in color as well as black and white.

English

Free to download

Spanish

Free to download

Cholesterol: Your Plan for a Healthy Lifestyle

The updated Cholesterol: Your Plan for a Healthy Lifestyle 16-page booklet includes colorful illustrations and descriptions of high LDL-cholesterol and how it affects the body, risk factors, healthy eating and weight management, the importance of exercise, and pharmacologic treatments.

Patients can use checklists to identify their risk factors—both those that they can change and those that they cannot—as well as check their understanding of the information, and identify steps that they will do related to their activity level and their medications.

This booklet is available as a free download in English. PCNA members may order hard copies of our patient education tools at no charge.

English

Free to download

$0 members/$50 non-members
25 booklets per order

Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery of any printed materials.

Disclaimer: This and other PCNA educational materials are for information purposes only and are not intended to replace medical advice or diagnose or treat health problems. Health-related decisions should be made in partnership with a healthcare provider. It is the reader's responsibility to seek out the most current, accurate information.